Scalable Network Processing Segmentation

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the consolidated security segment table is used for routing a packet received by the network device according to the forwarding policy decision.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the forwarding decision comprises at least one of a decision to forward a packet, to count the packet, to log the packet, to mirror the packet, to rate limit matching packets, to change quality of service (QoS) handling of the packet, or to change a forwarding destination for the packet.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein at least a portion of the first IP address table and the second IP address table resides in a random-access memory (RAM).

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the consolidated security segment table resides in a ternary content-addressable memory (TCAM).

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the consolidated security segment table does not include an IP address.

13. The system of claim 9, wherein at least a portion of the first IP address table and the second IP address table resides in a random-access memory (RAM) and the consolidated security segment table resides in a ternary content-addressable memory (TCAM).

18. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 14, wherein at least a portion of the first IP address table and the second IP address table resides in a random-access memory (RAM) and the consolidated security segment table resides in a ternary content-addressable memory (TCAM).

19. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 14, wherein the consolidated security segment table lacks entries containing an IP address.